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Crossword-Solution: DORSAL 6 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Dorsal a. Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Dorsal a. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
Dorsal a. Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a
creeping hepatic moss.
Dorsal a. A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne,
or of an altar, or in any similar position.

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DORSAL anagram ROALDS

We have 55 clues for the answer “DORSAL”

Clue Answers
Like some fins near the tail 1 answer
Back-related 1 answer
Fin descriptor 1 answer
Fin on a fish's back. 1 answer
Fish's __ fin 1 answer
Kind of column or fin 1 answer
Like a fish's main fin 1 answer
Like a spiny dogfish's spines 1 answer
Like some fins 1 answer
Dolphin fin 1 answer
Like the familiar shark fin 1 answer
Main fin 1 answer
On the back or upper side 1 answer
On the back, as a fin 1 answer
Pertaining to an animal's back. 1 answer
Shark's back fin 1 answer
Relating to the back or upper side of body 1 answer
SUPERIOR surface of four-legged animals 1 answer
Toward the back, as a fin 1 answer
thorasic 1 answer
tergal 1 answer
of or on the back 1 answer
___ fin (shark part) 1 answer
___ fin (shark feature) 1 answer
__ fin (fish feature) 1 answer
Type of fin 1 answer
Back fin 1 answer
Tarpon fin. 1 answer
Situated near the back. 1 answer
Situated at the back, as some fins 1 answer
Along the back 1 answer
Altar hanging. 1 answer
Aquatic analog to an airplane's vertical stabilizer 1 answer
Shark's back fin, e.g. 1 answer
BODY cavity inside the skull protecting the brain 2 answers
Kind of fin 2 answers
NEAR the back 2 answers
Of the back 2 answers
neural 2 answers
vertebral 3 answers
BACK of an animal 3 answers
Abaxial 3 answers
RICH cloth hanging 4 answers
POSTERIOR of the body 4 answers
pertaining to the back 5 answers
BEHIND the body 5 answers
BACK (pert. to the) 7 answers
"___ on the back." 7 answers
Types of fish fins 7 answers
COMBINING FORMS FIN 10 answers
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Sentences with DORSAL (5)

These creatures are only balaeaopterons, provided with dorsal fins; and, like the cachalots, are generally much smaller than the Greenland whale.” “Ah!” exclaimed the Canadian, whose eyes had never left the ocean, “they are coming nearer; they are in the same water as the _Nautilus_.” Then, returning to the conversation, he said: “You spoke of the cachalot as a small creature.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Newman did not hear his voice, but perceived that he presented the dorsal expression of a well-dressed Englishman.
The American Henry James 1994
Kidd could see the finger of the dial stand up dark against the sky like the dorsal fin of a shark and the vain moonlight clinging to that idle clock.
The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Banner fish (Zo”l.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with DORSAL (2)

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.
Thomas Hayden
Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water. A whole bunch of tourists went, "
Rick Riordan The Titan's Curse
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 56 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).